Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts acknowledges challenges in competing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for top Japanese talent.

Roki Sasaki could join a long list of impressive Los Angeles Dodgers rookies, including Hideo Nomo, Don Newcombe and Fernando ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have built ... franchise's international prominence. In 1995, the Dodgers made history by signing right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo, a five-time All-Star in Japan's Pacific ...

They were also the first Major League team to field players from Korea, Chan Ho Park, and Taiwan, Chin- Feng Chen, and the second team to have a Japanese player, Hideo Nomo. Nomo’s success ... Stan ...

Seiko Watanabe stood beside the pathway to the baseball fields at the Los Angeles Dodgers' spring ... and the iconic No. 16 jersey of former Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo has been popping up all ...

He is more athletic than Hideo ... Nomo and Darvish pitched more than 1,000 innings before they stepped on a major league field. Some fans won’t be happy with Roki Sasaki signing with the ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have ... roster already brimming with talent. The Dodgers have long been trailblazers in the international market, from Hideo Nomo to Chan Ho Park to Shohei Ohtani and ...

One of those teams, the World Series champion Los ... of Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda, Kenta Maeda and others. Signing Roki Sasaki was a flourish, and a bargain, to throw on top. The Dodgers have ...

Los Angeles looms as a uniquely appealing landing ... not just through their history of signing Japanese stars in Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda and Kenta Maeda but through their billion-dollar ...

Shohei Ohtani’s decision to defer all but $2 million of his new $70 million annual salary with the Los Angeles Dodgers enabled ... including Hideo Nomo, Kenta Maeda, Hiroki Kuroda, and Kaz ...